#neither of us can longfic but we can certainly imagine an entire plot for a long fic and take it almost as seriously as we'd take an actual

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Going more on an epilogue territory now i guess

I agree we can pretty much end their journey here when they reach the coast and are in love. I've grown too attached to the picture of lulu carrying him to a cabin in the middle of a storm and them spending the night there to accept your proposed ending with my whole heart, but since we both arrive at the same place - them alone and safe and recovering and in love, resting in each other's arms at a beach somewhere - i say we both get to keep the version we like best and move on. Or, rather, stop moving (?) i do still have some epiloge-y thoughts to share and discuss, but plotwise i think we did reach an ending

One thing i like about them arriving in some sort of abandoned village is that it makes it easier for them to survive and gives us some useful tools - maybe the cabin needs fixing but they have one, maybe there's some old fishnets and fishing rods that could use repairs but that will allow them to fish with more ease. They find a rusty pushcart that that with some toying can fit martin inside with some water and allow him some movement on land without need luciano to carry him around everywhere - though that is always the preferred option if you ask martin (also on the gravity thing, maybe at first he doesnt appreciate lulu's strength but living on land will soon teach him the concept that things weight to lift so he'll eventually have his gay panic moment im sure)

On martin learning how to swim again, they start slow. Once he's fully healed, luciano takes him back to the sea, first very at the very shallow part where they can seat and only have part of their bodies covered in water, mostly because martin misses being in water - he's a merman, he's not made to live in dry land or in a little aquarium, so they spend a great part of their day in those shallow parts. Luci also takes martin in his arms a little deeper, that being where luciano's feet can still touch the ground, since he needs to hold martin though it. It's a great improvement, at least for martin's mood. He's frustrated that he cant just swim wherever he wants, but its better than nothing and he wont complain about being held, right? Here he can start his attempts to actually swim, knowing luciano can easily rescue him (which does happen a few times until he gets the hang of it).

I'm not sure with a shredded tail he can go swim alone, although he'd be stubborn enough to try. When he's confident enough in the shallow, the last step is to get the longest rope they could find, and tie one end on his wrist or torso and the other at the rowboat. Like this, luciano rows them deeper in the ocean, enough for martin to have space to do his thing, and so he lets martin swim around as he wishes. The rope is there was a safeguard, if anything happens, martin can pull himself up the rope back to the boat, or use it to signal to lulu that he might need help. It's not the freedom and agility he had before, but he gets to swim everyday and feel less trapped.

Luciano uses this time martin is away swimming to fish their dinner or nap under the sun, it's not like they have much more to do, right? And he also slowly realizes something he would never expect - he's happy. He's cast away from his family, away from any community, living in a desert island and may never see his mother or the pirates he grew up with ever again, he should be miserable, but he's not. He's in peace, he enjoys his time, he has a person he loves and no duties or expectations. He didn't even know this was a life he could choose, and how he wouldn't trade it for anything.

Sooooo, Kai totally beat me to it on twitter but heeeeey we haven’t had a Brarg Sunday in a while. Who feels like discussing a Merman AU? ♥